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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE
FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

SENATE-A message was received from
the governor transmitting report from the
drouth commission and recommending that
their time be extended
Upshaw introduced petition cxempting
volunteer fire companies from payment OF
poll, road and street tax.
The Mcdonald land bill was taken up on
final passage.
Amendment by Calhoun, providing that
when water is situated on one quarter sec
ton of land itmay be sold to actual settlers
without purchasing the whole section, was
defeated, and the bill passed by % to 8.
Aliens bin, to appoint u visiting commits
sion to state institutions, who shall make
inspection ninety days before the meeting
of the Legislature and report, was taken
up. Am nded to include comptroller and
treasury departments and land Office. SEN
ate refused TO engross the bill.
Houston introduced a resolution amend
ing the constitution by eXempting manu-
facturers from taxation; also to grant GER.
tificate Tor league and labor of land to
deal SlnltH.
Gregg introduced bill amending the
corporation law, permitting corporations to
own 10000 acres in the county of their bust
ness and to loan money on real estate.
BIZ authorizing counties to issue bridge
bonds passed.
Senate bill preventing limitations run
ming against cities and towns was taken up
with the house amendment.
The senate refused to concur.
The senate concurred in the house amend.
ment to the strikers intimidation bill
House bill protecting railway companies
in the payment of their wages was passed.
The substitute for the house joint resolu-
ton to amend the constitution by granting
legislators 50 per day for 30 days was taken
up. Adopted.
Hancock introduced bill creating the Of
flee of road overseer.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
DALLAS WATER.

A sale of the waterworks would
give some corporation monopoly of
the water of this city, Il scheme
which should not be even considered
by the council Water is as essential
to life as air, and the city government
should make it as near as possible as
pure and free as air. While the HER
AID realizes the fact that it cannot be
made free, yet it is true that wise
and economical government can pro
vide this necessity always at a ren-
sonable and low rate-much lower
than could be expected were the works
owned and controlled by corpora
ton, whose only care would be to
make the largest possible prof
it. Or, if the city gov
should stipulate in the transfer low
maximum beyond which the price
could not go, itwould still be to the
consumer to have the water under the
control of the city, for the public
would thus be insured better quail
ty of water and better service at the
same price. The nonresident prop
erty owners who speculates on the
enterprise and industry of Dallas, is
Just as much interested in a good and
cheap water supply as the resident
who is forced to consume whatever
supply is provided. Instead of clos
ing up the wells of the city and de-
pending solely for water on a corpo-
rate or even city ownership of the
water works, the city of Dallas had
best use liberal portion of its $500,
900 to put in sewerage system all
over the city and thereby purify the
wells of the city.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
Horses of Quality.

The higest class Of carriage and sad
die horses to be found in New York
City come principally from Kentucky.
New York, Vermont Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Canada, and now
and then very choice small LOT from
Virginia The Kentucky and Virginia
horses have. as a rule, more style and
finish. or what is termed quality"
about them than those from other
States. for the reason that they have .
greater sdmixture Of thoroughbred
blood in their veins -Nev York Her
al
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
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New Discovery for Consumption Is
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Bronchitis, Asthma, Group and every
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Trial bottles free at w. ii. howell q
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
Lively Times in Ennis.

ENNIS, March 1.-The local option
fight is warming up. 1t is the princi-
pal topic of conversation OH the street.
Walk up TO man and he first ques-
ton is, "How goes prohibition !" The
Prohibitionists are enthusiastic and
hopeful, while the ants are determin-
ed and working with zeal. Mrs. Annie
Palmer, national superintendent of
cvangelistic work, is billed to lecture
tomorrow evening at the Methodist
church.
Ennis has prospect of soon having
roller flour mill. Two of our citi-
zcns offer to build one and operate it
if the town will raise $4,000 bonus,
which they agree to do. The amount
is nearly all subscribed, and it is ex-
pectcd to have the whole amount be-
fore next Saturday.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05

The Library Tea viii be held this
evening from TO 8 o'clock p. m,
under the supervision of Mesdamcs
Tom Miers and George r. Fearn, as
sisted by Misses Anaise and Estellc
Archinard. Sue Hamilton and Philo
Eagon. aud Miss Kate Handy, of Can
ton, Miss. A crowd of little girls will
also assist. A choice bill of fare is
promised and a large attendance
earnestly solicited.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05

The citizens National Bank of Wa
co will increase its capital stock to
100000.
While skating in the rink at Fort
Worth, James Langiner fell aud broke
his leg.
A Turnverein has been organized
by the German-American citizens of
Fort Worth.
Measles has caused a considerable
falling off in attendance in the public
schools at Fort Worth.
A crowd of alligator hunters on the
Lavaca river, near the. town of Edna,
arc meeting with big success.
A lad named Paul Baker was run
over and killed by bus in Weather
ford.
The Waco compress has handled
about 5000 Dales of cotton this sea-
son.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
BIRMINGHAM'S BOOm.
Views OF n MN Who is Not Loaded
Up with Real Estate. a..a.

views OF a Man Who is Not Loadct
UP with Real Estate.
Now, here is good straightout, hon
est statement to begin with: Birming
ham Is not safe place to live in
Birmingham issituated in valley un'
dulatory and naturally drained" Thai
is wha, the prospectus says. Well,
there is no artificial drainage. that is
sure And if the lack of sewers, the
absence even of rude cutters to dispose
of slops and filth the utter careless
ness of every sanitary need-if this
means natural drainage" then natur'
al drainage is just what Birmingham has
and has abundantly. There is no river
big or small, no water course here al
all. Simply described, Birmingham
town is just one flat stretch OF soil,
hemmed in by the mountain sides sud
denly rising from her limits. The
mountains drain on Birmingham. Bir
mingham drains on herself. Were there
even an insignificant creek at hand,
sanitary necessities could be readily at
tended. As natural conditions do exist
in this flat territory, anything akin to
satisfactory sewerage system will re-
quire the expenditure of immense
sums of money. One or two puny
cheap and abortive schemes have failed.
Birmingham so far has been too much
on the rush, too much given over to
booming, to think or care apparently
for trivial things like this of making heI
homes habitable.
The result is that to-day when an oo
server goes through the streets he is
largely obllvious 20 everything save
that he has n nose. Pools of green
and Shiny water, nastiness trickling
from back yard to back yard, hogs run
ming loose in every part of the town
(all unsuspicous that they are not in
fit and appropriate sty), streets that
are only stretches of miry clay, unsafe
for light wagons, unfit for heavy ONES
-SlcucH, SlcuCll, SJCiCH' oh thc Siouho
in the air-stench everywhere, stencil
eternal! Thirty thousand people mass
ed in one topsy-turvy community; 3d.
600 people with no running water with
in miles, with no sewerage system.
with soil soaked till it is ilabby with
filth, with nastiness accumulated and
accommodating in very lakes. This
means and can mean but one thing;
and that one thing is Birmingham bids
defiance to the sternest of all natural
laws, courts diseases, tempts epidemic.
The cholera that nipped the first years
of her existence, when but 1000 or B..
900 people were here taught its terri
pie lesson in vain. Men fell by scores
in her very streets then, unwarned OF
their danger; but with all that deadly
experience there is no more security
against the same epidemic now than
there was then, nor so much; for where
there was little community at that
time there is at present driving city
of Oh, 900 souls. Men overtaxed by ex-
element and wearicd by trying
schemes of money-making crowd here
now, sensitive to disease, almost ner-
vously PROSTATE the half of them
NeU York Times.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05

G. w. Grove, of the Grove School
aud &. w. Harmed, secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. A., go to Arlington .to.mor-
row to organize Y. NJ. G.. A.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05

As Dallas booms, so does the HER
AID. It is with satisfaction the HER
AID points to its local news and adj
vertising columns. As the HERALD
becomes better known, it is the bet
ter appreciated.
National Republican., 1887-12-29

uTANTED-A PLACE TO COOK IN PRI-
w vate family by O respectable colored
woman. 1905 nth st.. bet X and L. 1-3l
National Republican., 1887-12-29
Kecn onr silycr Mt nnma.


Previous to 1861 the United States pro.
ducCd but little silver. That year $1,000
Geo worth was dug the next year the pro-
duction was 81, 500 900. In 1868 IS, 100000
WIS produced, in 1864, 81 coo, 900; In 1873,
s35 100000; in 1888, $40, 900, 900, and In 1887
The silver mines Of the country will pro-
duce not less than S52 900, 600. From 1861
to. 1887, inclusive. the mines OF the United
States yielded the enormous sum OF eight
hundred million dollars IN Slver.
During the same years we imported $685.
$30,s5s worth of silver, and exported $685..
7CO,0l0. Our exports Of domestic silver-of
the precious metal dug out of American
mines-amounted to $iS3, ,493, AL worth. So
that with our enormous production OF
$500, 900 andimports of nearly $3.50, 900,
0O0, we only retained Ia these twenty.slx
years $4G3, ,190,24S worth OF silver, but little
over half what we produced.
On July l, 1873, the coinage of silver
was suspended, and resumed under the
present law July /, 1879. From 1874 to
1878, inclusive, we produced $l9],0O0,OOO OF
silver and imported S55, ,OO0,0 900, whilst our
exports amounted to $l3s 600, 900, leaving
only $40, 100000 added to the country's
wealth in these FIVE years. When there was
no silver coinage, We only retained 81 per
cent. Of the product OF our silver mines.
From 1879 to 1887, inclusive, the silver
product Of the United States amounted to
$420,0O0,000. The excess OF exports over
imports of silver in these years amounted
to $4,000, 600, leaving $780, 900 Ia the
country and adding to It's wealth that
amount. Iu these niue years OF coinage
we retained 81 per cent OF the output of
our silver mines.
The question is, why should any OF the
silver mined In the United States be seat
abroad Eight hundred million dollars
taken from our own mines IN twenty
six years, aud but little over half
of It added to the circulation. That
condition ought to bo changed, and
every dollar Of the product OF our silver
miues, not only retained in the country,
hut Annually and with but little cost added
ia the circulation Of tho country.
The average annual production Of silver
hfs ieen over $50 600 600 for four year.
past. II will probably continue at that
aId ibis valu alton is based upon the mar
ket aud not the coinage value Of silver. Ina
silver mined 10 the United States, Il all
coined into standard silver dollars, would
each year add $G2,0OO,O)O to the mouey OF
the country.
Ihgt amount Of money added TO the cur
rcucy Of the country every year would ln-
crease h IN a slightly greater ratio tnan.the
average Increase OF population, aud thus
prevent the natural contraction which fol.
lows the rapid increase population and as
consequence the need of more currency.
There is but one way TO make all the
silver produced In the country part of It's
currency, and that way Is to provide for
free coinage. Let the law provide that
every man who owns given amount OF
ellver can send 1t TO any mint or assay
ofllce, or any depository Of the United
National Republican., 1887-12-29
FIRST PAYMENT WANTED
For the Work Which Has Beon Done
on Gunboat No. 2.

For the Work Which Has Beon Done
on Gunboat No. 2.
President Malster, of the Columbia Iron
Works, Of Baltimore, was in consultation
with officers Of the Navy Department yes
terday in relation to the first payment, now
due, on gunboat No. 2, which is building at
those works. According TO the terms of
the contract a tenth payment Of the total
contract price must be made by the govern
ment when one-tenth OF the construction
work on the boat is finished. 1t is believed
that this amount Of work has been done,
but the illness OF Assistant Naval Con-
structor Gatewood has prevented formal
report certifying to that fact SO that pay
ment can be made. The time allowed by
the contract for the completion OF the YES
sci has expired, yet all of the
frames Of the vessel have not yet been
placed, and the contracting firm is now
under the terms OF the contract suffering
penalty OF S25 day for each days delay
In completing the boat. President Malster
states that the difficulty IN procuring suit
able material, in conjunction with bad
weather that prevented work, has caused
the delay, aud be has hopes that wheu the
facts are formally made known to the Navy
Department the penalties will not be ex-
acted. Nine tenths Of the necessary material
is now on hand, and with the large force nt
men employed 1t is believed that the vessel
can be completed within six months from
date,
National Republican., 1887-12-29

States, and receive the value Of that silvo.
In standard dollars, or in certificates re-
decmable In dollars or bullion.
With such law not dollars worth Of
silvsr taken from American mines will
ever cross the borders, and every dollar'9
worth of 1t will become currency within ono
year after It is extracted from the ore.
And this currency would not be locked
up in the treasury and require an appropri-
alton bill to get 1t out. The man who owned
the silver would be the appropriation com
mittee to put It In circulation.
Such law would stimulate the mining
of silver and increase the product, thus ad.
ding still more to the currency Of the
country.
National Republican., 1887-12-29
About FREQ Trade,

The New York World, the Louisville
tOWiG.JOrndl, and other free trade and
revenue reform newspapers, with zeal
which surpasses their knowledge, attempt
to discuss the effect of customs duties
They are continually harping upon the
high ad valorem duties levied by our present
tariff.
Has II ever entered into the mind OF these
free trade ranters that where a specific duty
10 levied, and the cost Of the article de-
creases, that the duty becomes higherH
For instance 100000 pounds of sugar at
g cents per pound would be worth 500 1000
The specific duty on sugar ia cents per
pound, and the amount paid on this sugar
at the custom house would be $4,000, or
33l per cent. ad yalorem.
But II the sugar only costs 8 cents per
pound, that is $4,000 for 700, 900 pounds,
the amount collected at the custom house
would be the same, that is 10000, and this
would be 66i per cent. ad valorem.
The journals spoken Of, and Others Of
that ilk, rant and rave about the high ad
valorem duties, seemingly without a
thought, II they are capable OF thinking,
that the specific duty becomes a high or
low rate on the cost as the price OF the
article Is high or low.
When the specific DUTY OF so many dollars
per ION was put on Be;semer steel rails IL
amounted to only 20 per cent al yaorem.
The placing that duty on Bessemer rails
c0us,d AgeIican capitalists to inYest In
their manulacture, and competition be-
tween them has reduced the price Of the
rails, so that the same specific du5y, that
was 20 per cent Is now S5 per cent. ad
vAlorem, but not cent more on ton OF
steel rails.
The free trade tariff reform rantors
seem to lack tue ability or the inclination
to upuerstaud so plain demonstration ~
this duty on rails has given Of the benefits
Of cuGtoms duty,
TO show how the workmen are paid iD
the manufacture Of these rails we give th
daily wages paid to some Of the workmo4
in two estabi hmeuts, one ia Belgium M
one in New York, each engaged IN the
Manufacture Of steel rails'
National Republican., 1887-12-29
QUIET HON WEDDING
between John IL Foster aud Josephiu
piper,

Between John Il Eoster aud Josephine
Piper.
MIR. John II. Foster, son OF Hon. Alexau.
der II. Foster, Of Evansville, Ind, aud
nephew OF Hon. John W. Foster, OF this
city, was married last evening to Miss
Josephine Piper, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace l.. Piper, OF this city, at the rest
dence Of the BRIDES parents, 1905 L street,
by Rev. George y. Patch, pastor Of the
Unity Presbyterian Church. The wedding
was a quiet home affair, only the immediate
relatives OF tho high contracting parties
being present. The bride wore a travel,
ing dress OF pigeon blue broadclot6
and held bunch Of long -stemmed Nephetos
roses, tied with broad whito satin ribbon.
The newly welded pair left for trip to
New York Immediately after the ceremony,
the bride wearing turban matchiug the
dress in color. Mr.. and Mrs John ii.
Foster will return to the city shortly, and
then leave for Evansville, their future
home. Hon. Alexander II. Foster, who is
in the city to witness the marriage Of his
SOD, is the guest Of his brother, Hon. John
w Foster
National Republican., 1887-12-29

pian workmen lives. The official making the
report says that the employees 10 this es-
tablishment are better cared for than any
others in the country; Family numbersGve-
parents, sons aged Is and IL, girl aged 10;
threc.room house. Breakfast, bread, cof-
fee, sometimes potatoes or beans; dinner,
soup lsometlmes meat soup, sometimes
vegetable), potatoes, onions or cabbage,
occasionally salt pork or bacon, On some
Sundays and fete days fresh meat or eggs,
some Kind Of pudding, beer. Supper, rye
bread, coffee, milk.
And yet the free trade revenue reformers
rave about the additional price put on pro.
ttcttd goods by the tariff.
National Republican., 1887-12-29
" WANTED---HBLP.

yITANTED-A CoLoRED ROY TO AT.
w tend TO one horse and make himself
generally useful. Apply at No. 4s3 Pa. ave.
National Republican., 1887-12-29

THE Presidents supposed discharge from
free trade cOlumbiad turns out 10 b. .
remarkable boomerang. l. returns TO
plague the gunner with great persis.ensy.
The l0horing men and the artisans were hfat
to send response, but higher authorities arc
beginning TO he heard. Here comes Nj.
Howe Call, who has been conspicuous as Q
Democrat in New Hampshire, and later In
New York, to protest against importing a
revenue policy. Mr.. Call has been one OF
the orators sent out by the Democracy to
preach the faith; but, "next year." no says.
~ shall do my best in behalf of American
labor and American industry" His voice
will be heard sgaInst the reelection scheme.
And still there is room!
National Republican., 1887-12-29
AUSTRALIAN WOOL
Attracting no Small Amount of Atte
tion Because of Its Quality.

Attracting no Small Amount of Atten-
tion Because of Its Quality.
In report to the Department of State
upon the Australian wool clip for 1sS6-'s7,
G. W. Griffin, United States consul at sgd
ney, states that the remarkable features In
connection with the clip is the decided i'm.
provement In the quality Of the fleece over
that OF the previous season. This is mainly
que to the improved condition OF the natu-
raj grasses through the copious rains in
almost every part OF Australia. The Vic
torian wool sold In London during the
months Of November and December at.
tracted no small amount of attention on
account Of their superb quality and luster.
A marked Improvement was noticed In the
condition OF the clip from every one of the
colonies. The total number OF bales ex-
ported from all the colonies during the
year ended the 3lst Of May last was 1, ,16l,
5T4 against L. 1l2,l12 for the corresponding
period Of the previous year.
The wool exports of the Australian
colonies to the United Kingdom during the
first four months Of the present year
amounted to 2lI Ill2, 1877 pounds, against
2l3, sos pounds for the corresponding
period Of 1886, showing an increlses in
quantity FOR the present year OF 1884, ,6O4
pounds. The increase in quantity was far
surpassed by the Increase in value. The
v0lue OF the shipments Of Australian wo0ls
to the United Kingdom during the first four
months OF 1887 was SIS, ,I54, 130 while that
Of the same period in 1856 was only S4l,.
35S 800. The shipments for the month OF
April alone amounted to SIS 050, ,040, against
81 ,i30, $50 for the same month last year.
The direct wool export to the Uuited
States has been very small. The absence
OF the usual number of American buyers
was noticed at ull the colonial sales, es-
perially at sydney and Adelaide. The few
that were present showed no disposition to
bid against the French and German buyers
for the kinds of wool desired for the Amer.
lean market. Indeed, the only effect Of
the presence OF the Americans at all was,
perhaps, TO excite the competition between
the continental buyers, which was through
out sharp and keen and formed the main
stayiof.t the market. The only direct ship.
ments to America consisted OF II, 900 bales
from Melbourne and 100 bales from Sydney.
The total number of.sheep In Australia
for the present year amounts to $4,000, 900,
against 2l2, 900 for 1856.
National Republican., 1887-12-29
WhrrpD-Enp1oywpry.


w fly washing to take home reference
given II iflequired. Please cal at 20i Mass. ave.
N. w. 1871
National Republican., 1887-12-29
The Swallow Tail still
holds undisputed sway.
We've got them in fine
French Corksorews and
in plain black cloths.
We sell q fine Black Cloth
Full Dress Suit for S25,
Cut correctly and guaran-
teed perfect fitting.

The next grade will cost
$33. The material is
West of England Broad
cloth. Coat lined with
satin. Correct in all
things.
National Republican., 1887-12-29
ChiIdren,s Christmas club.

In addition to those already received the
Children's Christmas Club acknowledges
receipt Of the following articles Five
Hundred Christmas cards from j. Loring
Wilmington, fifty-two boxes candy and
books from Mrs. Malone, toys from Mrs
Totten, toys from Mrs. Hoeling, toys from
Mrs. Mabel Hunneway, handsome French
doll from Lotta Reed, dolls from Mrs Beh-
rend, toys from Mr.. Allen Barrett, large
donation OF stockings, mitts, muflers, and
handkerchiefs from Woodward IS Lothrop.
They also thank Messrs. Woodward & 10th.
rop for the very liberal discount made on
goods purchased there Tables were fur
nished by Mr.. IL. o. To1les.
National Republican., 1887-12-29
New Yenr,s Receiving.

Those intending to receive on New Years
Dag can have the same announced by sending
their names to the REPUBLICAN. Only au-
thorized publications will be made, and the
names Of those receiving and ladies assisting
should be sent in ms soon as possible, MS it
takes considerable time to prepare the list,
which win DC published next Monday morn
fro
National Republican., 1887-12-29

SPEAKER CARLISLE is taking his own
time, and the country's too, to consider the
"make up" OF the House committees.
While doing this he should be very careful
in his selection Of the members of the joint
committee on the library building. Each
ore OF them should be able to boast al
least half the motto OF the Che Galer Bay
ard, "Without reproach."